Talking Pyramids

As planned, the site of South Saqqara opened to the public today. Here is an excerpt of the article in Al-Ahram: Hundred of journalists, photographers and TV anchors gathered today at the Saqqara Necropolis, 30km south of the Giza Plateau, to catch a glimpse of the tombs that the minister of state for antiquities is [...]

Seven tombs at South Saqqara will be opened to tourists this morning for the first time. Two of these new tombs are the unfinished tomb of Maya, Treasurer to Tutankhamun and also the original tomb of military chief, Horemheb. Both tombs date to the Amarna period. Panoramic view of the desert south of the necropolis [...]

Djedkare-Isesi’s causeway The recent UNESCO inspection of the pyramid fields south of Giza has found that not only have many of the sites been ransacked and damaged, but there are also illegal construction projects on some of the sites. These include a huge cemetery with 500 empty tombs ready to be sold and even the [...]

Giulio Magli was in the news a couple of years ago with his grand plan for Giza, the idea that the three Giza pyramids

Pyramid Texts from the recently discovered pyramid of Behenu In the EEF news this morning was the news of the online publication of Giulio Magli’s 2010 paper: Archaeoastronomy and Archaeo-Topography as Tools in the Search for a Missing Egyptian Pyramid in PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology, 7(5) (2010) Here is an abstract: Among the [...]